Coming soon to Google Play

Wake up to your podcast.

An alarm clock that wakes you with your podcast instead of a ringtone. Once you're up, it's a proper podcast player. The episode downloads shortly before your alarm, so it starts the instant it fires.

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Fires every time: even after a restart or in battery saver. And if the episode can't download, a chime wakes you instead.

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Alarmcast alarms screen showing three alarms, each with its own podcast or playlist

How it works

From podcast to alarm in three steps

1  Find your show

Browse 28 topic folders of hand-picked shows built into the app, or search the full podcast directory. Play an episode to try it, then subscribe. Everything you follow lands in your Library.

2  Set your alarm

Pick the time and days, then point the alarm at a show or at a playlist you built. Choose whether it plays the latest episode or carries on where you left off. Volume, snooze and Gentle Wake are set per alarm.

3  Wake up to it

The episode downloads in the half hour before the alarm and plays from your phone's storage the instant it fires. No streaming, no buffering. If the download couldn't finish, a built-in chime rings instead.

See it in action

An alarm clock and a player

Three tabs: Alarms, Library, Discover. Every screen does one job, and setting tomorrow's wake-up takes seconds.

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Alarms screen with three alarms, each showing its podcast or playlist
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Discover screen showing the browse-by-topic grid of podcast folders
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The Gems folder, showing hand-picked podcasts with their cover art
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Library screen showing playlists and subscribed podcasts
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A playlist mixing episodes from several different podcasts, in order
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The library player with scrubber, speed and sleep timer
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The alarm ringing, with snooze, dismiss and Listen on
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Gentle Wake screen, with the bird

Your alarms, each pointed at its own show or playlist, with its own days and wake style.

Built around podcasts

The podcast is the point

You choose what wakes you and how. Alarmcast handles the rest: finding it, downloading it ahead of time, and playing it on the dot.

Ready before you wake

Point an alarm at a show and Alarmcast downloads the episode in the half hour before it fires, Wi-Fi first, mobile data as backup. When the alarm goes off, audio starts instantly from storage. No streaming, no buffering.

Playlists, in your order

Build a playlist from any episodes of any shows. A five-minute news brief, then the long one you actually lie in bed for. Drag to reorder, and point an alarm straight at it. Up to 20 episodes per playlist.

A Library built for alarms

Subscribe to the shows you love and point any alarm at one. The Library marks what you've played, what's playing now, and exactly which episode each alarm will start from. No surprises at 6 am.

Latest, or carry on

Each show is set one of two ways: always wake to the newest episode, or continue where you left off. Set it once per show, from the Library, the alarm editor, or the player.

A full player, not a toy

Once you're up, the library player takes over: scrubber, playback speed, sleep timer, episode notes, and one-tap play on every episode in your Library. It rolls into the next episode on its own when one ends.

Never silent

Feed offline, episode pulled, download failed? A built-in chime rings at full volume instead. Whatever breaks upstream, the alarm still wakes you.

A small bird perched calmly on a branch

One more thing

Gentle Wake eases you in

Not a morning person? With Gentle Wake, bird calls fade up from silence in the minutes before your alarm, so the podcast lands on ears that are already half awake. A softer start, layered on an alarm that still fires exactly on time.

Listen on

The alarm hands over mid-sentence

You're awake, the episode is good, and you don't want it to stop. Press Listen on. The alarm ends properly, then the player picks the episode up at the same second, at a sensible volume, with the rest of the show queued behind it.

Both halves of the app keep one shared sense of where you are. Carry on over breakfast, and tomorrow's alarm knows how far you got.

  • Same episode, same secondThe playhead crosses over exactly. No restarting, no hunting for your place.
  • Volume doesn't jumpThe player matches the loudness the alarm was already at.
  • The queue comes tooThe player rebuilds the full list of episodes, not just the one you woke to.
  • Tomorrow follows onOn a show set to carry on, where you stopped is where the next alarm starts. Requires Premium.

Discover

Over 4,000 shows, already sorted

Most podcast apps hand you a search box and wish you luck. Alarmcast ships with a catalogue of hand-picked shows across 28 topic folders, built into the app, so browsing works before you've typed anything. Search reaches everything else.

Some folders are about a subject. Some are about a mood.

Which matters more than usual at 6 am. Gentle Starts exists because not everyone wants breaking news before their feet touch the floor.

Gentle Starts Gems News & Current Affairs Comedy True Crime Tech Education & History Animals & Nature Sports Cult Classics Complete Series Listen with Kids + 16 more, and you pick which ones you see

Reliability first

The alarm fires every time

An alarm that streams at fire time is a bet on your morning network. Alarmcast doesn't gamble. The episode is already on your phone when the alarm fires, and the app is built around one rule: it wakes you up, no matter what Android does overnight.

✓Survives reboots
✓Fires in deep Doze
✓Beats battery optimization
✓Rings on the lock screen
✓No streaming at wake-up
✓Chime backup, always

The hard part

A ringtone is a file that ships inside the app.
An episode is a URL that might not be there.

That difference is most of the work. A ringtone can't go offline, get pulled, arrive half-downloaded or turn out to be 200 MB. A podcast alarm has to survive a list of things a normal alarm has never heard of. A few of the ones we found:

9.4%

Directories go stale

Nearly one episode in eleven has a different download link in the podcast directory than in the publisher's own feed. So we always ask the publisher.

Hotel Wi-Fi

Not everything that downloads is audio

Captive Wi-Fi hands back its login page as a perfectly valid-looking file. We check the bytes really are audio before trusting them.

Every ½ sec

"Playing" isn't the same as audible

Media players report success before any sound comes out. We watch the audio position actually move, and move on if it stalls.

Samsung

Some phones don't play along

Samsung quietly withholds the restart signal alarms depend on. We found out the hard way and routed around it, arming seconds before you unlock.

And when it all goes wrong anyway

Downloaded episode → Live stream → Next in the queue → Your chime → Built-in tone

Five rungs, each one taking over automatically. The last is a file inside the app that cannot fail to exist. Something wakes you.

Pricing

Free to start, with more when you want it

Every plan wakes you exactly the same way. Reliability is never behind a paywall. Paying removes ads and adds control over what plays and where it starts.

Free

Starter

Free, with ads

The whole alarm, free. Ads sit in the app, never on the alarm.

  • Up to 2 alarms
  • Latest or carry-on, per show
  • Gentle Wake & volume fade-in
  • The full library player: speed, sleep timer, scrubber
  • Skip-back 15s & built-in chime fallback
  • No ads on alarm screens, ever
No subscription One-off

Ad-free

$4.99 once · no subscription

Removes every ad in the app, for good.

  • No banner on Alarms, Library, Discover or the player
  • Unlimited alarms
  • Everything in Starter
  • One payment, no account, no renewal
  • Restore it on a new phone anytime
Most popular Subscription

Premium

$11.99/yr (about $1/mo) or $1.99/mo · 21-day free trial

Ad-free too, plus control over what plays.

  • Everything in Ad-free, including unlimited alarms
  • Build playlists from any episodes of any shows
  • Resume mid-episode, even days later
  • Skip forward & jump between episodes while the alarm plays
  • Skip episodes you've already heard

Not a subscription person? A one-time $29.99 Lifetime purchase unlocks everything in Premium, forever. And a playlist you've already built keeps waking you whether or not the subscription is still running: Premium gates making them, never playing them.

Why there's a Premium plan

The alarm came first: the scheduling, the download ahead of time, the fallback chain. That part is done, it's free, and it works identically on every plan. We'd rather someone use Alarmcast for years without paying us than ship an alarm that quietly doesn't ring.

Premium is the listening layer built on top: picking a long episode back up days later, skipping around or jumping to another episode while the alarm is still ringing, and building playlists that mix shows. Live playback controls on an alarm that must never fail was the hardest thing in the app to build, and it's what the subscription pays for.

The Alarmcast team

The Alarmcast bird, singing

Wake up to something worth hearing.

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